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Monty Panesar took 5-46 as England beat the West Indies by seven wickets on the final day of the fourth and final Test at Chester-le-Street on Tuesday to complete a 3-0 series win.

England, set 110 to win, reached 111 for three with captain Michael Vaughan (48 not out) steering England home in his first Test series in 18 months after injury.

West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul passed 50 for the sixth time in consecutive innings and top scored in the West Indies as he equalled George Headley's record of top scoring in six consecutive innings, scoring 70 in West Indies' second innings' 222.

England are now unbeaten in home Test series since losing to Australia back in 2001.

Left-arm spinner Panesar helped bowl out West Indies in their second innings with 5-46, while fast bowler Steve Harmison cast aside news he that he needs a hernia operation by taking two for 92 including one in a marathon 17-over spell.

The resilient Chanderpaul was the last man out - bowled by Panesar - for 70 as he looked to get the West Indies a bigger lead. Chanderpaul batted for 17 hours and 38 minutes until his dismissal and is the only batsman ever to have gone unbeaten for more than 1,000 minutes on three occasions. He holds the world record with an unbeaten sequence of 1,513 minutes in 2002 against India.

The tenacious left-hander scored 116 not out in the second innings of the last Test at Old Trafford and made an unbeaten 136 in the first innings of this game. He averaged 148.66 in the series and was the only West Indian to pass a hundred in the series.

West Indies were still hanging on at lunch and harbouring slim hopes of escaping with a draw. But when Dwayne Bravo miscued a lofted straight drive and was caught at mid-off to Panesar for 43, the innings gradually folded around the seemingly immovable Chanderpaul.

Marlon Samuels was caught at slip by Collingwood off Panesar, who then produced the classical left-arm spinner's delivery that pitched on leg stump and clipped off to bowl Denesh Ramdin.

Daren Powell was caught off Harmison in similar fashion to his first innings dismissal and a couple of overs later Harmison then shattered Fidel Edwards' stumps.

England were employing six slips to Edwards, with Ryan Sidebottom, who bowled tidely throughout the innings, and Monty Panesar at 5th and 6th slip respectively. Chanderpaul was then bowled trying to slog sweep Panesar but the ball turned and kept low.

Panesar was the top wicket-taker in the series with 23 with Sidebottom second with 16.

The first day of the match on Friday was completely washed out by rain, while only 40 overs were possible on Saturday.

England won the second and third Tests at Headingley and Old Trafford, after the first match at Lord's was drawn after rain on the final day.